Paper-holding device for files



(No Model.) 2 sheets-sheet 1.

G. H. BESLY.

PAPER HOLDING DEVGE -POR FIL-ES.

No. 423,2589,` Patented Mar. 18, 1890 N. PEYERS Primo-lithography. wnshingwn, D. C.

(No Model.) Y 2 sheetssheen 2.

C. H. BESLY. PAPER HOLDING DEVICE EOE PILES.

N0. 4z3,589. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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OHARLESH. BESLY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

lPAPER-HOLDING DEVICE FOR FILES.

` SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,589, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed December 18, 1888. Serial No. 294,012. (No model.) y

Tol all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BESLY, of

Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Holding Devices for Files; and I do hereby ldeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference' marked thereon, ywhich form a part of this specication. i

This invention relates to the paper-holding devices of files, and is more especially intended for attachment to the backs or bases of files to removably hold the perforated indexsheets of such files, or to hold the sheets themselves when the latter areperforatedto receive the rod of the holder.

The invention consists,primarily,in a springrod supported by the iile and a fastening for the free end of the rod, also secured to the file, whereby the .rod is held locked at its top or free end, so as to retain the papers thereon until it is required to remove them, while upon the detachment of the rod from its fastening the rod will spring forward away from the fastening, normally assuming an inclined position with respect to the back or base of the tile to which the device is attached, so as to allow the papers or ind eX-sheets to be removed and others substituted in their place without hinderance from the fastening.

The invention consists, less broadly, in a paper-holding device of the spring order, constructed of spring wire or metal bent into the desired form and adapted to be attached to the back or base of a iile.

The invention is mainly shown applied to a iile of the box form, having therein aseries of perforated indexsheets strung on the spring-rod of the holder.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a iiling-case shown in a section taken trans# versely to the back of the case, or in line 1 l of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a section parallel to the backbf the case, or in line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 arefragmentary perspectives showing a portion of the back ofthe filingcase with the improved paper-holding device attached thereto. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a modiiication. Fig. 6 is a perspective showing another modication, in which the paper-holderis connected at the bottom with the file 'or tile-base. Fig. 7 is a top View of the modification shown in Fig.- 6. Fig. 8 shows the paper-holder secured in a recess ofv a fileback by insertion of a widened rear part of the holder in lateral grooves at the back part of the recess. enlarged scale with part broken away.

n A represents a filing-case, of which A is the back, and A2 the bottom. B is a series of index-sheets provided with apertures at b, adapting them to be strung on the holding-rod-of a iile. y

C represents the index-holding rod, which,

Fig. 9 is a similar view on an in the form herein illustrated, is constructed of spring-wire and of the same piecewith the back portion C and a bottom part c, which v connects the back part C with the rod C.

The hook or catch is shown at c', and in all figures except Fig. 4 it is part of the single` piece which forms the remainder of the device.

The rod C, the bottom c, and the back Cin Figs. 1 to It, inclusive, are of double wire; but the hook c is single. g

In these figures it will appear that the Wire is bent upon itself at the end of thepaperholding rod C, so as to afford an open loop c2 at its upper end to receive the hook c. two parts of the wire wherev they form the back portion C of the holder are brought into contact with each other at the upper and lower portions of this back part, but are centrally separated or bent outwardly in opposite directions, as shown in Figs. 2,3, and 4, in a plane at right angles to that of the bottom c, sov as to afford a wide bearing against the back A of the tiling-case, whereby the holder is retained in its proper position, or with the rod C at a distance in front of the surface to which the holding device is attached. So constructed the holding device is conveniently secured in place .against the back of the case by means ofstaplesD D near the upper and lower portions of the back part C', as seen in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4., or by means of screws arranged on opposite sides of the back wire, as indicated in Fig. 5, or by inserting the widened back part C into lateral grooves c e at the rear of the recess E,

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as seen in Figs. 8 and 9. In the last two modes of connecting the holderrwith the case the holder may be removed at pleasure. As giving better support to the holder when attached by insertion in the grooves e c, its back part mayy have the form shown in Figs'. .4 and 5. If this back part C be bent out of line-as, for example, bent forward at its middle part before insertion-it Will bind in the grooves e e and retain its place with all needful firmness till its removal is desired.

In Fig. 4 the hook c is a separate piece of wire thrust into the back of the case A, and in Fig. 5 the whole devicefis made of a single piece of Wire, not folded or doubled upon itself, but bent 'out or offset in its rear portion at both sides of the centralV plane of the holder to give the ldesired'breadth of bearing against the back of the filing-case.-

In Figs. 6 and 7 -the paper-holder is shown applied to the bottom or base-board of a file,

` the lower connecting part c'of the holder being in this instance given the proper form for a desired breadth of bearing upon the part to which the holder is secured.

When the spring-rod C is freed from the hook c,it assumes an inclined position,(shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 andr 3,) with its upper end forward of the hook far enough to admit the papers to be filed. It stands in this position with a degree of rigidity which 'enables the index or other sheets to be readily applied thereto,'and when engaged with the hook it maintains its engagement therewith rmly by reason of its forward pressure due to the elasticity of the material of which it is made'and the normally-inclined position given it when free.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with a file, of aspring paper-holding device made of a single piece of spring-wire and comprising a back part, a hook at the upper end of the back' part, arod to enter the perforations of the sheets, and a bottom part connecting the lower end of the rod with the back part, that part which bears upon and connects with the tile being laterally bent to give breadth, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination, with a file, of a spring paper-holding device consisting of a paperholding rod, a back part, a connection between the bottoms of the rod and the back part, anda hook at the top of the back part, all made of a single piece of wire formed into a loop at the toprof the rod, and extending double to the upper part of the back portion and separated between the ends ot' 'the back or bottom parts, substantially as described, and for the purposes setA forth.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. BEsLY.

Vitnesses:

M. E. DAYTON, GEO. W. HIGGINS, Jr. 

